Emirates airlines to launch direct flight to Ahmedabad

Emirates airlines will start its six-flights-a-week service to Ahmedabad in western India from October 28.

Emirates airlines will start its six-flights-a-week service to Ahmedabad in western India from October 28, senior officials have said.

The non-stop flight from Dubai will be the airline's ninth destination in India, and second in the country's western region in two decades after it connected Mumbai in 1985, its vice-president in charge of commercial operations in West Asia and Indian Ocean Salem Obaidallah was quoted by WAM news agency as saying on Monday.

Obaidallah said Emirates' Dubai-Ahmedabad flight comes a year after the airline embarked upon a major expansion programme in southern India.